So I sync my 2.3 million files between shares, ticked "Copy NTFS..", all ran GREAT! I love it.
Only, now I need to re-compare and update/sync. Neither File Time/Size nor Content compare actually checks the ACL's!? So File A has a new user added with perm X, when I compare, it see's no diff, so I cant replicate the extremely important file again with its extremely important permissions change! Which I have now about 130K+ of!
Aaargh. HEEELP! Please someone, anyone....?
How sync ACL's AFTER initial copy/sync?!
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Same question. In my case, I gathered a lot of portable tools in a folder structure (let's say "source") with "Read only" ACL (to make simple) and then I created a copy of this set (let's call it "target") on another machine that I synchronized with FFS. Time to time, I discovered that some files (parameters ...) need "Write access" and thus I changed some ACLs in the "source". Now I would like to update the ACL on the "target" without copying all the content again. Until now, I never used the general option of FFS allowing to copy the ACL. I activated it and started a new compare. Unfortunately, FFS detects no change, no difference between the source and the target. I expected a way to detect a security change in the files but it is not the case.
If I copy again the whole source content to update the ACL, the problem will occur again and again each time I will discover new ACL to change in the source.
So my suggestion is to add a new way to compare files based on their ACL.
I must admit that this would be the icing on the cake for this very useful tool.
Kr
Laurent
Belgium
Same question. In my case, I gathered a lot of portable tools in a folder structure (let's say "source") with "Read only" ACL (to make simple) and then I created a copy of this set (let's call it "target") on another machine that I synchronized with FFS. Time to time, I discovered that some files (parameters ...) need "Write access" and thus I changed some ACLs in the "source". Now I would like to update the ACL on the "target" without copying all the content again. Until now, I never used the general option of FFS allowing to copy the ACL. I activated it and started a new compare. Unfortunately, FFS detects no change, no difference between the source and the target. I expected a way to detect a security change in the files but it is not the case.
If I copy again the whole source content to update the ACL, the problem will occur again and again each time I will discover new ACL to change in the source.
So my suggestion is to add a new way to compare files based on their ACL.
I must admit that this would be the icing on the cake for this very useful tool.
Kr
Laurent
Belgium
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It's a TODO: viewtopic.php?t=2732
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I've had to do things similar to this for various reasons. You'll need to use something like robocopy. Test it out on a temp directory first.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2008/07/31/robocopy-mir-switch-mirroring-file-permissions/
Basically: ROBOCOPY <source> <target> /MIR /SEC /SECFIX
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2008/07/31/robocopy-mir-switch-mirroring-file-permissions/
Basically: ROBOCOPY <source> <target> /MIR /SEC /SECFIX
